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In 1992, he was a 29-year-old computer scientist and one of the many graduates of Stanford Business School running software companies in the Bay Area. In 1992, that couldn’t be done – modems transmitted information too slowly.

I sat on a stool at the centre of the bar, ordered a beer, and refreshed the feeds on my mobile. A basketball game played on several monitors at once. I allowed myself a moment’s longing for my living room and its couch.

Then I pretended to watch the game on a monitor that allowed me to look the other way. I refreshed the feed that indicated whether other people in the neighbourhood were sitting alone in bars. An OK Cupid Locals invitation has to start with the word ‘Let’s’:‘Let’s go now you and I’ always comes into my mind, but I’ve never broadcast an OK Cupid chat signal, I just respond. Every era has its own utopian possibilities: ours is the chance to make our lives more bearable through technology.

"It was horrifying she has been a friend for a long time and my wife is friendly with her." Louise Chater, her former sister-in-law, added: “Debbie was a kind and beautiful person.

She was a proud mother and had brought up a beautiful daughter.” Sussex Police last night confirmed that a 45-year-old man, who was known to Miss Levey, had been arrested in Selsey.

"She went round the back and the door was unlocked and that was when she saw her.

She came back here and I had to go in to confirm it. She was just sitting on the settee with a rug around her shoulders. The television was on the standby screen as if it had been on.

Eric Bulbeck, who rented out his cottage to Miss Levey, suggested that she had not been with her current partner, a taxi driver from nearby Selsey, for very long.

Mr Bulbeck, 77, said she had been a good friend for ten years and was a “brilliant tenant” and a “lovely lady” who was good at her job.

Because in its early days the internet was prevalent in worlds that had historically excluded women – the military, finance, mathematics and engineering – women were not online in big numbers.

As late as 1996 America Online estimated that of its five million users, 79 per cent were men.

Miss Levey’s daughter - a teenage college student - is not believed to have been at her mother’s semi-detached home of ten years, situated on a quiet country lane in East Ashling, near Chichester, West Sussex, when she died.